Egypt in the First Millennium CE - AHIS261

This unit is an overview of Egyptian society, economy and culture in the period from the Roman conquest of Egypt to the Fatimid period. Topics include: natural resources and the built environment; government and taxation; agriculture and trade; the structure of society; ethnicity; literacy and bilingualism (Greek, Demotic and the rise of Coptic); the growth and development of Christianity; and the fate of Egyptian Christianity in the centuries after the Arab conquest.